Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Bought new computer processor fanSwitched on computer for a few seconds without clamping new fan and heat-sink down properly.
Instant toasted AMD Athlon. Dead, with a nice scorch mark on the warranty label underneath as a bonus.
A hundred quid, GONE. Just like that.
Okay, not as bad as the eleventy billion pound losses some have described, but THIS WAS MY OWN MONEY. :-(
(, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 19:07, 4 replies)
You......should have gotten an Intel anyway.
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The Master Baiter is coming soon, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 20:31,
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Intel WinsEvery Time
until AMD releases their quad core line
/geek, relurks
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The Master Baiter is coming soon, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 22:26,
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I did that too.And sent it back to Dabs, who sent me a replacement.
Which I promptly torched again. And got it replaced.
By which point I'd worked out what I was doing wrong. Third time lucky.
(, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 22:46, closed)
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